{"id":1788,"date":"2011-06-03T00:58:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-06-03\/1788"},"modified":"2011-06-03T00:58:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-02T15:58:39","slug":"exquisite-beauty-growing-like-weeds-by-the-side-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2011-06-03\/1788","title":{"rendered":"Exquisite Beauty Growing Like a Weed by the Side of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Today's photos are sort of a combination of the softness we saw in\n“Exploring the Edge of Creamy Macro Bokeh with Lily of the Nile<\/a>”\nwith detail in\n“Exploring the Sharper Side of the Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5<\/a>”. I was driving<\/span> through the middle-of-nowhere mountains south-east of Kyoto with friends Shimada-san and Paul Barr, and when we stopped to check out a small<\/span> shrine we happened upon,\nthese clover(?) were right next to the car.<\/p>\n\n

The shots above and below are almost identical (the flower is slightly further away in the shot above), but the effect is wildly different....<\/p>\n\n

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\nsame as above, but\nFocused a Smidgen<\/span> Further In<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
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The Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5<\/a> was in heaven...<\/p>\n\n

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These are just some weeds near the car... you can barely even see the flowers in this wider shot...<\/p>\n\n

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There was just something about the light and the grass in that area that was captivating...<\/p>\n\n

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...and among it were various dainty flowers...<\/p>\n\n\n

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Daisy<\/span>\nbut quite different than we saw last week<\/a>\n<\/div>\n
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More Grass<\/span>\na bit<\/span> busier than the first grass shot<\/div>\n
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For more context, here's a wider shot, with the car and the clover in\nthe background, and the grass and other flowers in near the edge of the\nbridge guard rail...<\/p>\n\n

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Shimada-san checking out the same grass\/flowers....<\/p>\n\n

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Paul doing the same, with the reason we stopped in the first place waiting in the background...<\/p>\n\n

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Continued here...<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today's photos are sort of a combination of the softness we saw in \"Exploring the Edge of Creamy Macro Bokeh with Lily of the Nile\" with detail in \"Exploring the Sharper Side of the Voigtl\u00e4nder 125mm f\/2.5\". I was driving through the middle-of-nowhere mountains south-east of Kyoto with friends Shimada-san and Paul Barr, and when we stopped to check out a small shrine we happened upon, these clover(?) were right next to the car.<\/p>

The shots above and below are almost identical (the flower is slightly further away in the shot above), but the effect is wildly different....<\/p>

The Voigtl\u00e4nder [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,2,6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}